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TIL when Led Zeppelin were set to perform in Denmark in 1970, Eva von Zeppelin, a relative of the Zeppelin creator, threatened to sue the band for using her family name and for the cover of the band’s debut album. To avoid any controversy, Led Zeppelin performed in Copenhagen as “The Nobs”.

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P1Y5w TIL About Water Tunnel Number 3, an ongoing construction project that began in 1970, to bring water from upstate NY to the City through tunnels 500 ft below street level
VBVX8 TIL that the then-president of Kappa Sushi, who used to be an executive at Hama Sushi from 2014 to 2017, was arrested in 2022 for obtaining data from Hama Sushi. The data includes monthly sales figures & prices at which Hama Sushi bought its seafood. He received the data from his former colleague.
Wk7OA TIL Life expectancy in Zimbabwe under President Mugabe fell from 62 years in 1990 to 36 in 2006
690O8 TIL The American Iron Front owes its roots to a paramilitary organization formed in the 1930s in Germany to oppose the Nazis that was named simply the Iron Front (Eiserne Front).
v1ne8 TIL Gabriele Falloppio, an Italian Catholic priest and anatomist born in 1562, was the first to describe a condom and advocate its use to prevent syphilis. In an early example of a clinical trial, Falloppio reported that from a sample of 1,100 condom users, none of them contracted syphilis